Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-06-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent


The soldiers of the National Drill have
folded their tents and marched away to
the strains of their own thrilling music,
and in consequence, the Capital City is
not so gay as last week, and many of
our bonny bellies, wit h love-lorn sighs
and misty eyes, pine over the lost hopes
and opportunities for conquest of those
few fleeting days, while numbers of the
visiting troops have been totally van
quished by the storms of the fair ones.
Except in financial sense, the Drill
was quite successful. The deficit is
from $4,000 to gl2,0O The managers
counted on an average attendance of
10000, though it was 6, 900 or less. Some
propose to make the drill permanent by
having one every year, and it is hoped
the project will materialize. If there
be another, we trust the Confederate
Democratic South will send liberal, pro-
gressive men here instead of the mar
row-minded, provincial numskulls who
considered themselves such superior be.
ings that they felt it pollution to march
in the same military procession with
the hated though harmless ''nigger,"
and therefore dropp ed out of line,
Able financiers, with good reason,
predict a financial crisis when the
movement of the present crops begin.
based upon the fact that within the past
year, the New York banks have in
creased their rate of interest from per
cent to per cent, while their reserve
surplus has very largely decreased, and
also, upon the further facts, that the
immense surplus in the Federal treasury
continues to rapidly accumulate, with
out any relief from the burdensome
taxes exacted from the people. Thus,
at the end of two years, we are sensiblv
feeling the benefits to business and pub.
lie policy of reform Democratic Ad.
mnistration. Really, Uncle Sam is SO
seriously i'll from his nauseous dose that
it is highly probable an extra session of
Congress will have to be called early
next fall to administer an antidote.
The recent death of NJ jor Ben Perley
Poore, the pioneer Washington news
paper correspondent, removed familiar
and prominent figure from the Capital.
For forty five years he has been init
mately associated with the great states
men of the country, from Clay and Cal
houn to Blaine and Lamar-he having
been for twenty-five years clerk OF the
Senate Printing Committee, years after
he had been leading journalist.
Decoration Day was observed with un-
usual eclat, the soldiers of the National
Drill acting AS escort to the Grand Army
of the Republic. For the first time. the
grave Of that gallant hero and patriot.
John A. Logan-he who instituted this
glorious day-was buried by loving
hands in a mass of beautiful flowers
only five months after he had surren-
dered his noble soul.
There is still much speculation as to
who will fill the vacancy on the Su.
preme Bench. The place is by common
consent conceded to the South. There
Is but one certainty about 1t, Garland,
the Cabinet member, who long since
was promised the first vacancy, will not
get 1t, since his corrupt connection with
the Pan Electric Telephone Company
has been disclosed, for he now says he
VIII not have it, which means he cannot
get it, as the President, with all his
bulldog courage, could not afford to
run the risk of wrecking his Admins
tration by decking the Supreme Court
with such malodorons Garland.